Improvement in preparing beefsteaks for cooking



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS G. STAGG, OF NET YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN PREPRING BEEFSTEAKS FOR COOKING.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 7,735, dated October 22,1850.

To all whom, it #may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS -G. STAGG, of the city, county, and State of New York, now temporarily residing in the city of Pittsburg, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Machine for Making Beet and other Meat Tender before Cooking; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a side view; Fig. 2, an end View; Fig. 3, an end view with upper roller elevated, and Fig. 4 a sectional view of the same.

Similar letters indicate the parts in all the ligures.

The nature of niyinvention consists in employing two rollers having conical or other shaped teeth, by forcing the meat between which rollers the said teeth are made to act perpendicularly and laterally on the meat, bruising the fibers thereof and bringing out the juice without lnashing or flattening the meat, the upper roller to be supported on movable lever that the pressure maybe regulated according to toughness of the meat, or to raise said roller to allow a bone to pass through.

Fig. l is a side view as the machine stands ready for use. A is the platform; B, right standard; C, right lever; D, under roller; E, upper roller; F, cross-bar; G, handle; II, leg.

In Fig. 3 Ais the platform B, right standard; b, left standard; C, right levers; c, left lever; D, under roller; E, upper roller; F, cross-bar; G, handle; II, leg.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view. A is the platform; B, right standard; b, left standard; C, right lever; c, left lever; D, under roller; E, upper roller; F, cross-bar; G, handle. The rollers are formed by nine or `more toothed rings ustrung on a shaft, letter I being a side view of such rings, and K a front view.

That I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The preparing beef and other steaks for cooking by running them through toot-hed rollers, substantially as set forth and described in the specification and drawings.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this ist day of October, A. D. 1850.

THOM. G. STAGG.

\Vitnesses:

JOHN WALKER, RICHT). CAssIDY. 

